How They Play Us for Fools

Some Westerners have absorbed the attacker's narrative so completely they repeat it as fact — which is a big reason real and numerous victims of Jihad rarely make the front page.

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How They Play Us for Fools

Some Westerners have absorbed the attacker's narrative so completely they repeat it as fact — which is a big reason real and numerous victims of Jihad rarely make the.

By Richard Landes There are two kinds of people who repeat propaganda: the ones doing it on purpose, and the ones who genuinely believe it to be true.